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“The Wise Hours” — a review

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She starts with the Barn Owl, and proceeds in her book, one owl per chapter, usually informed by an expert guide of some sort, such as Luke, an officer in Britain’s Barn Owl Trust. Thus her story becomes “braided with two ecologies – the ornithological and the personal.”

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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This is followed by tales of birds like Barn Owls and Rockhopper Penguins, whose over-reproductive habits practically guarantee that some nestlings will die. What does it mean that a hummingbird fossil was found in southeastern France? Why are all the real tanagers in tropical America?

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Collaborative List – October 2019

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Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). Barn Owl – Tyto alba. has reached 54. Rough-legged Hawk – Buteo lagopus. Ash Creek Wildlife Area (LAS Co.). 26 Oct 2019. 26 Oct 2019. 26 Oct 2019.

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